Where history’s wildest, weirdest, and most unbelievable moments will make you say, "Holy shit!"
586.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 60.4K upvotes, which works out to 103 per 1,000 members.
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In 1955, Iranian doctors documented the days of a villager who developed rabies after a rabid wolf attack. The resulting film remains one of the few …
In 2010, Phoebe Handsjuk died after falling 12 stories down a garbage chute in her apartment building, where she lived with her boyfriend, Antony Ham…
In 1943, French Resistance fighter Raymond Aubrac was captured and sentenced to death by the Nazis. His wife Lucie then personally led a commando rai…
Extended cut of the period between first and second plane hitting World Trade Center
Remembering Roger Boisjoly, engineer who correctly identified a fatal flaw in Challenger shuttle design months before the disaster but nobody gave a …
On 8 March 2008, Italian performance artist Pippa Bacca began hitchhiking from Milan to Jerusalem in a wedding dress as part of the “Brides on Tour” …
On 11 March 2011, 24 year old city employee Miki Endo died warning the people of Minamisanriku, Japan of the incoming Tōhoku tsunami. Broadcasting wa…
In 1983, 10-year-old Jo-Anne Pedersen was locked out after an argument with her older sister and called her mother from a payphone. An unknown man to…
In 2012, 2 year old Maddox Derkosh was visiting the Pittsburgh Zoo when his mother ignored safety warnings and placed him atop a safety railing. Madd…
On Sept 5, 1942, during WWII, Petty Officer Charles Jackson French swam 6–8 hours off Guadalcanal Island, towing a raft of 15 wounded sailors after U…
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